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This is a list of traditional Arabic place names. This list includes: Places involved in the history of the Arab world and the Arabic names given to them. Places whose official names include an Arabic form. Places whose names originate from the Arabic language. All names are in Standard Arabic and academically transliterated. Most of these ...
"Arabic" = Letters used in Classical Arabic, Modern Standard Arabic, and most regional dialects. "Farsi" = Letters used in modern Persian. FW = Foreign words: the letter is sometimes used to spell foreign words. SV = Stylistic variant: the letter is used interchangeably with at least one other letter depending on the calligraphic style.
Arabic, Persian. Fortified place, fort, fortress, castle; [3] see All pages with titles containing Qalat Casbah, Kasbah, Qaṣba, Qaṣbah, Qaṣaba Arabic: القصبة, romanized: al-qaṣaba), a kind of medina (old city) or fortress All pages with titles containing Casbah; All pages with titles containing Qasba; All pages with titles ...
Tunisian Arabic words and phrases (3 P) Pages in category "Arabic words and phrases" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 331 total.
The Arabic alphabet, [a] or the Arabic abjad, is the Arabic script as specifically codified for writing the Arabic language. It is written from right-to-left in a cursive style, and includes 28 letters, [ b ] of which most have contextual letterforms.
Rank Country City Population Founding date Image 1 Egypt Cairo: 22,623,874 968 CE [3]: 2 Iraq Baghdad: 8,126,755 762 CE [4]: 3 Saudi Arabia Riyadh: 7,676,654 1746 CE [5]: 4 Egypt ...
At 58 characters it is the longest place name in the United Kingdom and second longest official one-word place name in the world. SEE MORE: Watch Naomi Watts pronounce the longest town name in Britain
Its Arabic name Beit Jibrin ("house of the powerful") is derived from the original Aramaic name. [48] Beit Shemesh: Today a majority Haredi Jewish city, established near the ruins of an ancient city of the same name. Its name translates as "House [of] Šamaš’", which indicates it was a site of worship of the Canaanite sun-deity Šapaš/Šamaš.